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Escape from empire : the developing world's journey through heaven and hell
- Title
- Escape from empire : the developing world's journey through heaven and hell / Alice H. Amsden.
- Author
- Amsden, Alice H. (Alice Hoffenberg)
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- vi, 197 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Escape from Empire, Alice Amsden argues that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow. America's recent inflexibility - as it has single-mindedly imposed the same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing economies under its influence - has been the backdrop to the rise of two new giants, China and India, who have built economic power in their own way."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Heaven can't wait -- 2. Where the sun never sets, and wages never rise -- 3. Trading earth for heaven -- 4. Angel dust -- 5. Gift of the gods -- 6. The light of the moon -- 7. Dien Bien Phu : knowledge is eternal -- 8. To hell in a straw basket -- 9. America's fatwas -- 10. The devil take the hindmost -- 11. Great balls of fire.
- ISBN
- 9780262012348 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262012340 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006033363
- OCLC
- OCM72354405
- 72354405
- SCSB-5926701
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries